The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1887-12-16
ORG FOURg RU1E.


The Young Mems Democratic As.
ISOLATION, Of New Orleans, is com
prised Of large number Of young
gentlemen Of that city who are seek
ing to purify the political atmosphere
in that nalghborhood. Although the
organization has determined to take
no part as a body in State politics
during the coming election, but 10
permit lis members 10 support any
candidate whom they may see fit to
endorse, the association, in an address
to the public, directly strikes at the
candidacy Of Gen. Nichols. The ad-
dress says: 1.-THE affairs of New Or
leans are not well or wisely conducted,
and while our tax rate reaches the
high figure of 2.02 per cent. the streets
remain ill-lighted, badly paved, I'M
drained and dirty, and the citizens are
obliged to hire private watchmen to
guard their property" And it calls
upon all good citizens who are inter-
ested in the future prosperity of New
Orleans to cooperate in remedyIng
these evils. As the 'Big Four" in
that city are the head and front of the
municipal management there, and as
the same gentlemen are energetically
urging the election of Gen. Nichols,
it will strike the average reader that
if these gentlemen have succeeded so
well in misgoverning the city of New
Orleans, is it to be supposed that in
the event of the success of their fa-
vorite candidate the State would be
benefited by their further advance
ment in power. 1t is not a plausible
supposltion that these gentlemen are
over-exerting themselves in behalf of
Gen. Nichols without an understand
ing that they are to profit thereby in
the remote possibility of his success.
Shall the rule of the big Four" be
extended over the entire State?
The Shreveport Times gives the fol-
lowing inkIing Of the methods and ar
guments employed by the reformers in
soliciting votes in some portions of the
State We have it upon authority
which no one could reasonably ques-
ton that some of the reformers in
Franklin, Richland and Morehouse
parishes, where the negroes will be
permitted to vote at the primaries, are
elechoneering with them in a manner
that is simply outrageous. They read
to them extracts from Gov. McEnery's
Monroe speech, in which he sharply
draws the color line tell them that
he is the eolored mans most bitter
enemy ; that he has sent troops to the
sugar district to shoot down and muir
der unresistIug and unarmed negroes :;
and-moro Infamous, if possible, than
this-reformers in Franklin parish at
least that if he is reelected they will,
sooner or later, be put back into Blav-
cry. 1t would, of course, be idle and
unjust to make such a charge as this
upon the more respectable class of re-
formers in the parishes named, but we
are clearly justified in the belief that
this mode Of electioneering is resorted
TO by certain class Of the eyangeIs
of reform. 1t Is idle to say that the
slavery argument is too absurd for any
rational man to use, because we all
know the wonderful credulity of the
Iaegroes, especially on the subject of
their freedom. Moreover, the colored
people Of those parishes are not hall
80 well informed as those of Caddo, OF
at least those of Shreveport"
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